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I moved the original Yahoo group after 10+ years to Facebook and am building up that presence. Now I have added full videos from season one, including the original pilot episode "To Kill a Priest", and the infamous gypsy knife fight episode "Marked for Death". T.H.E. Cat aficionados now have a place to have a drink and a smoke & comment your opinions!. Intro Mission Statement: "Group Description The coolest show ever to hit television!. "Out of the night comes a man who saves lives at the risk of his own...Primitive, Savage, in love with danger: The Cat!"_was set in the foggy streets of San Francisco, & packed a lineup of creative genius: Lalo Schifrin's ("Mission Impossible") awesomely cool theme...Boris Sagal (Father of actress/singer Katy Sagal of "Married with Children" and "Sons of Anarchy"), Harry Julian Fink (Later giving a similar attitude to Eastwood's "Dirty Harry") and more, the show employed some of the best experienced actors we have today (Robert Duvall, for example, appeared more than once, notably as an educated but twisted assassin). T.H.E. Cat featured highbrow writing & noir style, that emphasized "exotic" cultures. Cat operated out of the mythical "Casa Del Gato" nightclub, run by an earring wearing Gypsy Spaniard who owes Cat his life. The show was, however, lambasted for "humorlessness" and "excessive violence" by critics (in comparison to the campy fluff action/spy fare of the day, Cat was seen as "too serious" and the violence "too realistic", which was the entire point by it's producers!. Their vision was that of the "hardboiled" action books, not campy child's games. The only other series that even got close was the British "Secret Agent/Danger Man" starring young Patrick McGoohan as John Drake, full of excellent Ian Fleming writing and realistic Cold War spy action, including the music by Johnny Rivers, and the Original British Avengers, with Honor Blackman, later known as "Pussy Galore" in 007's "Goldfinger" with a cool jazz theme by Johnny Dankworth and was never shown in the US, until the second season when she was replaced by Dame Diana Rig and had also devolved from serious action into the 1960's camp fad). This eventually caused cancellation, it was simply too sophisticated and ahead of it's time to have survived. Young Robert Loggia played Cat as totally cool, preferring a Sykes-Fairbain style commando dagger to firearms (yet expert in their use, employing pistols and sub-machine-guns in various episodes, plus being a Savate/Gung-Fu/Karate/Ju-Jitsu expert when these arts were generally unknown in the USA, prior the advent of Bruce Lee). Cat,of course, tooled about town in a powerful rag-top 2-seater sports car. The cultured, well-read & traveled man in black clothes and leather gloves was as expert a cat burglar or professional bodyguard, as he was enjoying cool jazz over a martini and cigarette with a beautiful woman(Gerald Fried's incidental music in back) All hail Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat: The coolest "Cat" of them all!... (Hank West-Founder 11 years ago at Yahoo groups, resurrecting it on Facebook for those who have interest in the subject) --- See you there!... https://www.facebook.com/groups/239616043133516/

This is one of the better VN war movies from the "eye level" of small unit tactics, except for some small hiccups, such as a machine gunner not taking cover in a firefight("Private Ryan" was much worse on this aspect). I could not, however, help being irritated by the traditional Army vs. USMC rivalry being put out in this film as USMC Superiority (Something Ermy did not protest against I'd reckon). This is insulting to the Army specs units such as Rangers and Green Berets. It is a stupid argument, as the functions of each are essentially different, Marines are Sea/Land force insertion specialists, Rangers are Recon and Commando Raiders, Green Berets are Teachers and advisor's. The same anti Army mythology was used in "Boys in Company C", which Ermy was in also BTW. (I'm better situated than most to comment on this, as I was a Marine Reserve before I went on active duty in the Army back in 72' I have insight into both services and the atmosphere of those times). That being said, it should be noted that there was a lot of dope use and undisciplined behavior in many of the large troop units (draftee) back then, as reflected in the larger culture of the day.(Look up Operation Red Snow, the NVA's use of heroin as a weapon in VN) I would say this is to Nam' films what "Pork Chop Hill" was to Korean War films...

Notorious film for fans of Miss Sharon Mitchell and "The Hedgehog" Ron Jeremy, with footage they might not want current fans to see..."Mitch" is involved in "no holes barred" action that can only be described as "Tri-Sexual", while Ronnie performs his infamous "auto-fellatio" trick and is orally serviced by a "rough but sexy" breast-implanted Philipino Trans ending with a spurting tongue $$shot...The awesome magnificence of Sulka, with her large implanted breasts, full hormone induced hips, tiny rhinoplasty nose & collagen pumped up lips is so obviously "man-made" yet ultra feminine it will induce instant erectile lust, and includes a quick series of "before-after" sex reassignment surgery shots that may make some viewers think her more sexy before having "it" removed...The action is kept in a fun and lighthearted mood in keeping with the sexual attitudes of the (pre-HIV) days it was filmed (an opening establishing shot of a Black trans walking in San Francisco's "Tenderloin" district near a well-known drag club is a clue for those "in the know")...A worthwhile addition to any adult film library for historical value, kink value, and free-for-all sex without value judgment no longer seen or approved of in our current STD paranoid culture (Blacksnake2)